A noted coffee-house in Change Alley, described in the Tatler as the general mart of stock-jobbers.

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What is now called the Stock Exchange was called Jonathans.

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Yesterday the brokers and others came to a resolution that [the new building] instead of being called New Jonathans, should be called The Stock Exchange. . The brokers then collected sixpence each, and christened the house with punch.Newspaper paragraph (July 15, 1773).